Milan Fashion Week: 10 Best Looks From Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2016

All the best looks from MFW FW16

By Annabelle Fernandez - published 29 Feb 2016

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana created their own fairy tale this fall, channeling—quite literally—every princess, prince and evil queen that has ever been imagined. Including their chubby mice, chirping tea cup and dancing candelabra sidekicks. The point here, though, was that Cinderella is master of her own story. She is both heroine and hero, and maybe sometimes the cruel, vindictive but always sexy step-mother, too.

For every shimmering pale blue and shiny pink dress—either in a-line or cinch-waisted silhouettes—there was a military look festooned with ribbons and buttons, paired with cropped pants. The models all wore jewelled crowns, some with buttons and safety pins...because that's what a princess locked in a tower had to make do with, right?

The penultimate dramatic scene of any fairy tale romance is the ball. Here, it was translated through crystal-bright dazzling silver dresses—one an actual disco ball motif that could have also doubled as a cracked mirror metaphor. These, along with houndstooth and animal print dresses and skirts, were detailed with flowers.

As for the evil queen, she had the most wearable, grown-up clothes. As little girls grow up, they tend to see her side of the story, too, which is generally more interesting. (Think Wicked and Maleficent, for instance.) Black lacy widow dresses and power suits were in order, necessary for taking prissy misses down a notch. Her shoe of choice: golden sandals or black lace-up boots a la Doc Martens.

Dolce and Gabbana threw themselves down that rabbit hole of fantasy, as they do. Their finale a gaggle of disco damsels in pink and silver dresses—and if everything that came before was literal, it was hard to deny the fun of seeing an army of empowered princesses storm the Mad Hatter's runway. Alert: Sleeping Beauty woke up.

From: Harper's BAZAAR US